The veteran players that are here are, for the most part, either live locally (WR Bakari Grant), are coming off injury (WR Greg Ellingson) or new (Craig Butler.) All five quarterbacks are present and accounted for, of course.

There are a lot of new faces here, particularly at receiver and defensive back, and many of those players are looking to earn themselves a training camp invite. There will likely be a few players released after OTAs.

It's pretty tough to determine line ups based on an hour of OTAs with so many veterans missing but Butler is taking reps at safety with Courtney Stephen at the field corner: playing two Canadians in the secondary would give the Ticats some ratio flexibility elsewhere.

There are only five offensive lineman (Mike Filer, Joel Reinders, Steve Myddelton, Landon Rice and recent signee Dominic Alford) so they are getting lots of reps.

RB/KR Lindsey Lamar is here but not practicing but his injury is apparently unrelated to the concussion issues that cost him much of last season. Both he and LB Erik Harris, who is here and practicing, have been cleared.

LB Fredo Plesius is here which could be an indication that he could be getting more reps on defence this season.

These OTA sessions are non-contact and players are wearing just helmets and not shoulder pads.

VERY interesting comment from Austin on the ti-cats site... On the two QB (Burris Lefevour) situation:
"There were reasons why we put that offence in, reasons that may not be as obvious this year." (He said with a mischievous grin)
Oh, to be a fly on the wall :)

1)any nuggets out there from the completed USA free agent camps? Three more to go at the end of this week.

2)lots of talk surrounding the upcoming CFL Draft but none of it Ticat related. Scheduled to pick at 9, 11 and 17, what are the Ticats leaning towards in the way of needs? O-line? Speed? Special Teams fodder?